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TIL Bonobos form all-female coalitions to target violent males as a counterstrategy against harassment.

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gnrL TIL: KFC use to have a spin-off restaurant called “Kentucky Roast Beef”. (This one was in Bellevue, WA.)
LklDr TIL Offspring of some worm-like amphibians called caecilians allow their young to eat their flesh. The mothers of Boulengerula taitanus create a nutrient-rich fatty outer layer of skin after laying their eggs. When their offspring hatch, the babies scrape this layer off with specialized teeth.
4YlJ TIL dragonfly wings actually kill bacteria. There is a variety of mechanisms for this to happen, but one of those is by literally ripping open the bacteria with sharp, nano-sized pillars that coat the wings.
x01D TIL there’s a Scottish in-joke about the ‘wild haggis’. When polled, one third of US visitors to Scotland said they believed it was a real creature.
MG5a TIL that a Canadian man spent 7 years digging a basement using nothing but scale remote controlled diggers and trucks.